Honor ,Adversity and Time

1 Kings 2:36-46 (New King James Version)


36 Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there anywhere. 37 For it shall be, on the day you go out and cross the Brook Kidron, know for certain you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head.”



38 And Shimei said to the king, “The saying is good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do.” So Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.


39 Now it happened at the end of three years, that two slaves of Shimei ran away to Achish the son of Maachah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, “Look, your slaves are in Gath!” 40 So Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to seek his slaves. And Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath. 41 And Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back. 42 Then the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD, and warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and travel anywhere, you shall surely die’? And you said to me, ‘The word I have heard is good.’ 43 Why then have you not kept the oath of the LORD and the commandment that I gave you?” 44 The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know, as your heart acknowledges, all the wickedness that you did to my father David; therefore the LORD will return your wickedness on your own head. 45 But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever.”


46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and struck him down, and he died. Thus the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
 
 

We see above that The LORD takes Honor very seriously. This man in this scripture was given a second chance, like I was. He was blessed by the king, told to build a home. He prospered in this protection and cover. Yet because time had passed and a circumstance arose, he dishonored the goodness and The word of the king, and did exactly what he was warned not to do.

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Isaiah 42

 ¹ “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,
      My Elect One in whom My soul delights!
      I have put My Spirit upon Him;
      He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
       ² He will not cry out, nor raise His voice,
      Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
       ³ A bruised reed He will not break,
      And smoking flax He will not quench;
      He will bring forth justice for truth.
       ⁴ He will not fail nor be discouraged,
      Till He has established justice in the earth;
      And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”
       ⁵ Thus says God the LORD,
      Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
      Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
      Who gives breath to the people on it,
      And spirit to those who walk on it:
       ⁶ “ I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness,
      And will hold Your hand;
      I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people,
      As a light to the Gentiles,
       ⁷ To open blind eyes,
      To bring out prisoners from the prison,
      Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
       ⁸ I am the LORD, that is My name;
      And My glory I will not give to another,
      Nor My praise to carved images.
       ⁹ Behold, the former things have come to pass,
      And new things I declare;
      Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

    ¹⁰ Sing to the LORD a new song,
      And His praise from the ends of the earth,
      You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
      You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
       ¹¹ Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice,
      The villages that Kedar inhabits.
      Let the inhabitants of Sela sing,
      Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
       ¹² Let them give glory to the LORD,
      And declare His praise in the coastlands.
       ¹³ The LORD shall go forth like a mighty man;
      He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war.
      He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud;
      He shall prevail against His enemies.

    ¹⁴ “ I have held My peace a long time,
      I have been still and restrained Myself.
      Now I will cry like a woman in labor,
      I will pant and gasp at once.
       ¹⁵ I will lay waste the mountains and hills,
      And dry up all their vegetation;
      I will make the rivers coastlands,
      And I will dry up the pools.
       ¹⁶ I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
      I will lead them in paths they have not known.
      I will make darkness light before them,
      And crooked places straight.
      These things I will do for them,
      And not forsake them.
       ¹⁷ They shall be turned back,
      They shall be greatly ashamed,
      Who trust in carved images,
      Who say to the molded images,

      ‘ You are our gods.’
       ¹⁸ “ Hear, you deaf;
      And look, you blind, that you may see.
       ¹⁹ Who is blind but My servant,
      Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?
      Who is blind as he who is perfect,
      And blind as the LORD’s servant?
       ²⁰ Seeing many things, but you do not observe;
      Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”

    ²¹ The LORD is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;
      He will exalt the law and make it honorable.
       ²² But this is a people robbed and plundered;
      All of them are snared in holes,
      And they are hidden in prison houses;
      They are for prey, and no one delivers;
      For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”
       ²³ Who among you will give ear to this?
      Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
       ²⁴ Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
      Was it not the LORD,
      He against whom we have sinned?
      For they would not walk in His ways,
      Nor were they obedient to His law.
       ²⁵ Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
      And the strength of battle;
      It has set him on fire all around,
      Yet he did not know;
      And it burned him,
      Yet he did not take it to heart.


AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pray!!!!!!!!!!!!

If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

From Corrie Ten Boom

The Warning has been going out a LOOONG TIME!!!!

Judgment Warning for World--Exhortation(warning) for Church.

 Here is a Prophetic Outline for the time we have just entered into more fully. Not from me, but from The Word of God to JAMES!

Just because mans lies and evil are also used to bring about Gods prophetic Word .It does not release man from judgment for his lies and his evil.(Notice Judas)

The Worlds Rich and Elite, ought to take notice..........

James 5(AMPLIFIED)

¹COME NOW, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you.     ²Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten.

    ³Your gold and silver are completely rusted through, and their rust will be testimony against you and it will devour your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped together treasure for the last days.
     
⁴[But] look! [Here are] the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out [for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.

⁵[Here] on earth you have abandoned yourselves to soft (prodigal) living and to [the pleasures of] self-indulgence and self-gratification. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

⁶You have condemned and have murdered the righteous (innocent man), [while] he offers no resistance to you.
     
 <sup>Now here is our instruction for living in these days we are NOW in. Just as important for us to heed the Exhortation(warning) as it is for them to heed the  Judgment warning!

7</sup>So be patient, brethren, [as you wait] till the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits expectantly for the precious harvest from the land. [See how] he keeps up his patient [vigil] over it until it receives the early and late rains.

⁸So you also must be patient. Establish your hearts [strengthen and confirm them in the final certainty], for the coming of the Lord is very near.

⁹Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you [yourselves] may not be judged. Look! The Judge is [already] standing at the very door.
     
¹⁰[As] an example of suffering and ill-treatment together with patience, brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord [as His messengers].

¹¹You know how we call those blessed (happy) who were steadfast [who endured]. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the Lord's [purpose and how He richly blessed him in the] end, inasmuch as the Lord is full of pity and compassion and tenderness and mercy.

^{(There is a coming prophetic significance to this next verse. I DO NOT HAVE INSIGHT ON WHAT OR WHY. Feel  free to leave comment on this verse if The Lord gives you something. Notice, it says "above all things". This makes it a very important,very significant warning to us.)}

¹²But above all [things], my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath; but let your yes be [a simple] yes, and your no be [a simple] no, so that you may not sin and fall under condemnation.
  

Now some instruction on how we will ride above the roaring waves of Judgment and Calamity, 

¹³Is anyone among you afflicted (ill-treated, suffering evil)? He should pray. Is anyone glad at heart? He should sing praise [to God]. 

¹⁴Is anyone among you sick? He should call in the church elders (the spiritual guides). And they should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Lord's name.
     
¹⁵And the prayer [that is] of faith will save him who is sick, and the Lord will restore him; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
     
¹⁶Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].
     
¹⁷Elijah was a human being with a nature such as we have [with feelings, affections, and a constitution like ours]; and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth for three years and six months. [I Kings 17:1.]

     

¹⁸And [then] he prayed again and the heavens supplied rain and the land produced its crops [as usual]. [I Kings 18:42-45.]

Showing mercy and strength as we see some of our brethren fall in The Darkness.

¹⁹[My] brethren, if anyone among you strays from the Truth and falls into error and another [person] brings him back [to God],

²⁰Let the [latter] one be sure that whoever turns a sinner from his evil course will save [that one's] soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins [procure the pardon of the many sins committed by the convert].

To him who has an ear let him hear.

 

Time---REPOST

There is something about this painting that stirs my spirit man.
The Apostels were real men. They lived real lives. They walked in the real
power of God! Oh my fellow Christian, cant you see the damage religious tradition has done?


God is speaking, are you listening to Him?

Do you really discern the time we are in? Soon the answer to that will be made very clear to you and those around you. You will know whether you have a living faith, in a Risen Lord, or whether you have a religious belief, no different than a follower of Islam, Buddism, Hinduism etc. Do you serve the only Son of The Living God? Or the traditions of a religous system? Many will know the answer to that soon. Is Jesus Christ who He said He is? The only way, The Only Truth? Oh Jeremiah spoke of this time well. It is time for all lies to be revealed that have poisoned the True Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is time for the foolishness of man to be cast away and for The ressurection power of Jesus Christ to be revealed and demonstrated on the earth! Just like the early church. Real men of God moving in signs and wonders. God reaching through them performing miracles in The Name of His Glorious SON JESUS! For His name sake!


I saw this in another blog today. It just fits so well.



“It is a dreadful truth that the state of (as you say) ‘having to depend solely on God’ is what we all dread most. And of course that just shows how very much, how almost exclusively, we have been depending on things. But trouble goes so far back in our lives and is now so deeply ingrained, we will not turn to Him as long as He leaves us anything else to turn to.”


C. S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady (Grand Rapids, 1967), page 47, italics his.

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Join me and countless others as we are moved by The Spirit to intercede for those facing real danger, and suffering real persecution for the sake of the Gospel.

Pray as Paul did that the entire Body may be filled with the spirit of wisdom and revelation, so they may know how to navigate the rough waters ahead, as the earth prepares for The Coming King!

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